PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY. r 325 



1807 ; it is also after the method of SIMPSON, and 

 the investigation is accurate and concise. 



The solution of LA PLACE, in the Mecanique Celeste, 

 must be considered as the most perfect, and that 

 which can most certainly be said to include, and to 

 estimate with accuracy, all the causes which have 

 a share in this phenomenon. There is, however, 

 one defect it may be said to have, that as it pro- 

 ceeds entirely by the calculus, it does not suffi- 

 ciently carry the imagination along with it. 



SECT. 



